
As many of you know, for the past four years (this being the fifth), I took off a full week of work to make Thanksgiving dinner for my parents, my grand parents, and
liret. This is my thank you to the people I love.
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Prepping the Beets |
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Daddy’s Special Thanksgiving Cocktail |
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Sugarbeet |
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Crispy Baked Kale |
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Crab Salad on Endive with Dried Cranberries |
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Liver Mousse and Pickled Onion Crostini |
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Homemade Cheddar Cheese Shortbread Crackers |

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Liver Mousse & PIckled Onion |
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Fennel Soup with Toasted Hazelnuts and Dried Cranberries |
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Pretty Centerpiece |

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Jess! (NOT FOR EATING) |
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Mama! (Also not for eating) |
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Dada! (Do not even think about eating!) |
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Escarole, Frisee, and Shaved Beet Salad with homemade vinaigrette |
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Pan-seared scallops with chestnut sauce and deep-fried sage |
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Deviled Pickled Eggs |
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Cranberry-Mint Sorbet |
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Grandma and Poppa! |

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Brown Butter Mashed Potatoes with deep fried shallots |
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Turkey! |
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Brussels Sprouts with maple-candied pecans |
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Cranberry and Clementine sauce with pomegranate-candied pumpkin seeds |
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Rye and Pumpernickel Stuffing |
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Sauteed Broccolini with toasted almonds |
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Corn pudding |
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Mixed root vegetable gratin |

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Cranberry-Pomegranate relish |
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THE HOLY PEAS OF JOHN |
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Apple Pie |
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Pumpkin pie! |
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Apple-ginger pie |
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Pecan Pie |
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German Chocolate Pie |
Note: Everything here is homemade. The liver mousse is homemade. The crab salad is homemade. The soup is homemade. The syrups in the cocktails are homemade. The mayonnaise in the deviled eggs (which are home-pickled, like the onions) are homemade. The candied nuts and seeds are homemade. The sorbet is homemade. The beets, the carrots, the broccolini, the kale, and the brussels sprouts, along with most of the herbs, come from our garden so they're extra homemade. The only thing on the table that is not homemade are the peas, which are their own story. Their own very exciting story.
Mirrored from Antagonia.net.
(This is also counting as my
Free Topic entry for
therealljidol)